Research into casting

Research in casting

Journal 31st

Today we decided to go through the edited version of the title sequence and see if we could change any of the footage we had. In the end we decided to make some clips longer to create an eerie feeling to the title sequence. All that is left to do with the title sequence is the soundtrack to put behind the video which I'm still in the process of making.

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Behind the scenes footage

Journal 24th January

In the lesson we put on the last bit of footage on the title sequence. We had re-shot footage that didn't work in the of piece, instead of having the mirror and the writing on the mirror we decided that it was too hard to get this done and make it look good so instead we filmed a completely different shot of Scoot on the bed and creating a shadow walking across the back but just having the shadow and no body. I personally think that this works better than the mirror scene as its more creepier with the shadow walking across.

Journal 20th january

In lesson we decided that some of the footage wasn't fitting in with the rest of the clips and the mirror scene didn't look right because the mirror was too small. So we decided that we me and Laura would re-film the last scene in laura's house because she has a bigger mirror which can be used instead. We plan to film at some point this week.

Orphan Title Sequence

This title sequences relates to our version as its has animation of child like drawings included with special effects to make it seen as a high budget movie maybe. The colours used in the title sequence are key to the film and the drawings are huge factor in the film.

At the beginning you can see the logo for the company on a dark background with a flicker of colour onto the screen appears then we move onto the drawings, we can see the drawings are innocent but when the bright colours are added it shows a more sinister and creepy side of how drawings can be manipulated. The music is quite dramatic and creates a seriously tense atmosphere for the start of the movie. The typography seems very simple and plain compared to the animation around the typography.

The Music for the video starts quiet but there is a sudden loud part which draws you into watching the title sequence. Then we here a sound like a beepy noise which instantly makes you look at the screen more to see what has changed. The music then begins to build up and we here a eering and sinister type of sound in the soundtrack of the video. These sounds have been added to create a tense and unsettling atmosphere. It makes you more hooked in with what has become so sinister of the drawings made originally.

The first drawings are drawn like they are photos and a bible which look completely innocent.Then we change to a second drawing of a person, a flicker part happens with fluoresent colours, the colour appears to make the drawing more disturbing.

From the picture above you can see the light is dark and gloomy and themusic helps create the whole view of the animation drawing with the colours on top making it moregraphic on achilds drawing.It then flashes up one more timeand then fades out into black.

In the third image with just have a drawing of a ribbon and then cast names change with the beep sound on the video.

The photos above show the difference of how a childs drawing is manipulated into somethingsinister. The whole image becomes colder and darker.The editing of the bright coloured drawings to the normal drawing could suggest that we are going to see glimpses of something odd at first but obviously becomes very clear that there is something wrong in a way at the end.

The last it we see a dark screen with the light in the middle and having dark edges on the shot. The title of the film appears in a very clear and almost boring typography for a thriller/horror film like this but like the rest of the title sequence there is a flash part with pink and green over the top of the title, the music builds up through out the title sequence and becomes more dramatic and eering to then set the opening scene this keeps the audiences attention throughout the title sequence and into the opening scene.

Order of the titles

This is the order of the titles that will appear in the title sequence

Distributor: Universal Studios

Production: Sharpie Productions Ltd.

Characters names/actors:
Starring… Scott as Harry, Grace Covil as Grace

Film name: Walking with the Dead

More actors/actresses: Dakota Fanning, Harrison Ford, Matt Lanter

Music by: Megan Ellis

Costume designer: Laura Pound

Editors: Amy Clement Hayley Laurence

Production designer: Amy Clement

Written by: Megan Ellis

Produced by: Hayley Laurence

Directed by: Laura Pound

Journal 17th january

This is the first lesson we would of have back from filming so today we had Hayley and Amy editing the video while Laura and I sorted out the photos for Reece and started the behind the scenes video for evidence of us working. We filmed the title sequence of my camera so we all loaded the photos and video onto our own accounts so that if anything went wrong we always have it backed up. Although we did the filming when we watched some of the footage from the camera it seem that the mirror wasn't big enough so instead we are going to reshoot a scene in Laura house where she has a big mirror to use and easy to make it look like the same location.

Evidence of Reece

There are the stairs that the boys walk up to go into his room.

This again is the same sort of picture but with the lights on.
These are the stairs we intend while filming the boys feet while going up the stairs.

This the desk we intend to use when the boy drew disturbing pictures.

This is the room we intend to film the scenes with the boy and the teddies.

Journal 4

Today we are filming our title sequence around my house. Only me and Laura are needed for the filming as that is our part of the making the titles sequence, but grace is helping with the tripod and props for today.I have asked everyone to be at my house for 3pm so we can set up and plan were to place the camera angles before the boy arrives at 5 pm. Hopefully this should run to plan and nothing goes wrong.

The Omen Title Sequence

The whole title sequence is done in animation. First the audience sees a grave yard with grave stones and misty cloud above, a large grave stone appears with the title of the film and date, this suggests many thing first we know its a spooky horror film with the fact of a grave yarf present secondly the date is a clear detail link with horror as it is 06.06.06 which stands for the devils number 666. The we move onto a green grave yard with tress making the number six which is also clear sign of the devil having a part in this film.From just the part we can clearly see the genre and what the film maybe about. The music starts of light and twinky but eventually slows down with then a loud and dramatic moment drawing the audience into the tile sequence because the music has grabbed their attention.

Meanwhile as the music slow and becomes more involved and dramatic a dark mysterious house appears all in black with lights on shinning through the windows. The whole house is dark and has no a lot of detail to it but that the stereotypical daunting look example the tree in the window creating a scary shadow and the mist over the top of the house and then the gate which appears at the bottom of the screen. These are all clear signs of a haunted house that in a horror film would be normal to have in.

We then move onto the two bits with a rope in the hanging style for the death penalty first there is one alone on a blue background with the titles of the cast and crew. Then two more ropes appears in front of a basic drawing of a church this could suggest that religon is a part of the film and there maybe a conflict with the devil and church judging by the signs of 666 and the church with hanging ropes.

The typography for all the titles are plain and clear in a light yellow colour and a little detail underlining. This is basic and simple but works as the whole title sequence is quiet busy so using something plain and basic make the audience more drawn to this then the busy parts around it mostly.

Finally when the big boom happens in the music a black figure drops onto the screen as if the figure has been hanged, this would make the audience more awake and alert with what is happening. Then we cut to a lightening flicker into the next shot of a carousel with a child on this could suggest that a child is a main part of the film.

Then we see a child riding a bike in the house but at a low angle so we only see the feet and a black outline to make it more mysterious to the audience. We then see a family walking through the house and a creepy monster hand in front of them in the shadow. The monster man with the creepy hands stays on screen while we see shots of the animated version of the house and a coffin inside. The coffin then falls down with blood dripping down the top of the screen, this is all stereotypical things you would expect in a horror film. The last thing we see is faces in the blood and a the creepy hand reaching up from the ground before it cuts to the graveyard again and the title and date of a green background. Through out those scene the music is dramatic and catchy and there is a heat beat that is slow over the music.

Jerry Goldsmith

Journal 2

11-01-11
Today we went over our story boards and spoke to our teacher about all of our shots, together we decided that we would change the shots of the young boy Harry, to make sure that we do not see his face or his whole body in any one shot - we will only be seeing his feet, hands and back of his bad/back. We are doing this to create an enigma, and to draw the audience in so that they will want to find out who this boy his, and why his character is so dark and .unknown.

As well as this I am going to be making the titles for our title sequence today using dafont.com and photoshop

Production Journal

In our lesson on 06/01/2011, Megan started to look on Garage band at possible sounds for our Title Sequence. The sort of sounds to be featured in our Title Sequence are quite eerie sounds, to make it seem quite dark and sinister. We have also thought about featuring a child breathing.

Also in the lesson, another idea for something that could be featured in our title sequence came about. We were discussing the ending to our Title Sequence, when we stumbled upon the idea of the main character writing a message on a mirror. We would have him actually write on an acetate sheet, so that we can also get a shot, as if the camera is in the mirror. We would put the acetate over the camera lens, and he will write onto it, so that we can see him actually writing it. For the message that is going to be written, we thought about a couple of ideas. At first I thought it would be good to say something quite dark, so I suggested 'it's all her fault' but after discussion, we came up with 'it's all your fault.'

Laura Pound - Director/Storyboards/Filming

Megan Ellis - Director/Sound/Filming

Laura Pound - Director/Storyboards/Filming

Grace Covill - Actress playing Herself.

Joe Wolstenholme - Stage Management/Creative Director

Scott Smith - Actor playing Harry

Amy Clement - Editing

Hayley Laurance - Editing/Typography

Story and structure

Storyline: Follows Todorovs theory.
Equilibrium is... Harry's being normal with his 'imaginary friend'
Disruption is... Harry's behavior changes.
Notice is... his sister notices the change.
Resolution... his sister takes him to a mental institution, starts hurting people and is sent home and is told he is fine.
New Equilibrium is... ends with him at home with his sister walking in the door and then walks out as a man.

Storyboards

Filming Schedule

Typography

We have been looking into different fronts that we could use for the titles in our title sequence.
The name of our film is "walking with the dead", and as our film is a horror the font will need to be eerie, we also thought about trying fonts that look like a child has written it, or it has been scratched into something.
We use the website "dafont" to try different styles of fonts and this is what we came up with;

Whilst we was looking for fonts for the main titles, we came across type writer fonts that would look good for the titles during the title sequence. Amy and I decided that it would be good if we show the insertion point and the letters being typed into the shot.

Storyboard - Description

Order of Storyboard...

Shot 1: Camera movement is still while the boy walks up the hill. Sound of footsteps (3-4 seconds).

Shot 2: Boys cuts across view of house to walk up the driveway into the house. (3-4 seconds).

Shot 3: Handheld camera follows behind the boy giving the idea that someone is following him. (2 seconds).

Shot 4: Camera shots from other side of door. Show door opening and boy walks in ( walking towards camera). (10 - 11 seconds).

Shot 5: Camera shot of the hallway and the child putting down their school bag

(showing the idea that he comes across as a usual child). ( 5 - 6 seconds).

Shot 6: Boy opens fridge to get something to eat. When the fridge door shuts the titles begin to show. Music changes tone. (2 seconds).

Shot 7: Camera pans in on the fridge and the beginning of the credits. (2 seconds).

Shot 8: The camera (handheld) then follows the child as he walks up the stairs. (7-8 seconds).

Shot 9: Light beams out of the other room and boy runs upstairs into his room which is very dark, camera pans into child's dark room. (5-6 seconds).

Shot 10: BLACKOUT SCREEN. Sound of child breathing. (3 seconds).

Shot 11: Camera starts of an image in which the child is drawing, and then pans onto another image. Then all the images on the wall; disturbing images in which the child has drawn.

(10-11 seconds).

Shot 12: Camera begins to start on individual drawings, which show different names and credits of the film. (10-11 seconds).

Shot 13: Teddy bears which are sitting on the shelf have been changed in some way by the child, such as heads missing. Pan onto one of the teddies to see yet another credit. (5-6 seconds).

Shot 14: Close up shot of an image of his hand destroying the teddies. (5 seconds).

Shot 15: Camera pans from the image of the teddy to the mirror, the other side of the room.

(3 seconds).

Shot 16: Child writes, 'It's your fault' on the mirror, with the reflection of his face at the side of the mirror. (5 seconds).

Shot 17: Someone walks in front of the image of the boys face and text on the mirror, music builds up. (6 seconds).

Shot 18: BLACKOUT SCREEN. Title sequence ends, film begins. (3 seconds).

An example of the order of titles..

Example of order of titles:
- When analysing ‘Se7en’ title sequence...
1. Company names...
2. Distributor 1st ...
3. Production 2nd ...
4. Film by...
5. Characters names/actors...
6. Film name...
7. More actors/actresses...
8. Casting by...
9. Music by...
10. Costume designer...
11. Editors...
12. Production designer...
13. Director of photography...
14. Co producers...
15. Co executive producers...
16. Executive producers...
17. Written by...
18. Produced by...
19. Directed by...